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  1. Science & Society

    Banks err by confusing risk, uncertainty

    Too much information prompted bad currency projections by international money firms, a psychologist contends, and may have blinded them to the global financial crisis.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Neuroscience

    To understand meetings of minds, scientists should study brains in the wild

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Life

    2012 medicine Nobel honors research on reprogramming adult cells

    John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka share this year's prize.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  4. Spider man fell for jumpers

    View the videos The recently named Lapsias lorax spider got its name from the Dr.Seuss character with a yellow mustache. Courtesy W. Maddison/Beaty Museum Wayne Maddison examines a tiny but venomous snake caught along with spiders shaken from tree branches.